Vadim Ivanov

MSEE 1980, Ph.D. 1987, both in the USSR. He designed electronic systems and ASICs for naval navigation equipment from 1980 to 1991 in St.Petrsburg, Russia and mixed signal ASICs for sensors, GPS/GLONASS receivers and for motor control between 1991 and 1995. He joined Burr Brown (presently Texas Instruments, Tucson) in 1996 as a senior member of technical staff, where has been involved with the design of the operational, instrumentation, power amplifiers, references and switching and linear voltage regulators. Has 39 US patents, with more pending, on analog circuit techniques and authored 30 technical papers and three books: Power Integrated Amplifiers (Leningrad, Rumb, 1987), Analog system design using ASICs (Leningrad, Rumb, 1988), both in Russian, and Operational Amplifier Speed and Accuracy Improvement, Kluwer, 2004. His nanopower OpAmp was voted IC of year 2007 in EETimes and EDN polls.

Wing-Hung Ki

Ki received his BSc degree (1984) from UCSD, the MSc degree (1985) from Caltech, the Engineer Degree (1990) and the PhD degree (1995) from UCLA, all in electrical engineering. He joined Micro Linear Corporation, San Jose, in 1992, working on the design of power converter controllers. He joined HKUST in 1995 and is now a Professor with the ECE Department. His research interests are power management circuits and systems, switch mode power converters, switched-capacitor power converters, low dropout regulators, bandgap references, power transponders for RFID and energy harvesting applications, and fundamental research in analog integrated circuit analysis and design.

John R. Long

Received the Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from Carleton University in 1996. He was employed for 10 years by Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa (now Nortel Networks) involved in the design of ASICs for Gbit/s fibre-optic transmission systems and for 5 years at the University of Toronto. He joined the faculty at the Delft University of Technology in January 2002 as Chair of the Electronics Research Laboratory. Dr. Long was the recipient of the 1997 NSERC Doctoral Prize and Governor General's Medals for research excellence, and recipient of a Best Paper Award from ISSCC 2000.

Howard Luong

Howard Luong received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from University of California at Berkeley in 1988, 1990, and 1994, respectively. Since September 1994, he has joined the EEE faculty at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where he is currently a professor. In 2001, he took a one-year sabbatical leave to develop a new wireless product at Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Sunnyvale, California, USA. Professor Luong's research interests are in RF and analog integrated circuits and systems for wireless and portable applications. He was a co-author of the two books entitled "Low-Voltage RF CMOS Frequency Synthesizers" published by Cambridge University and "Design of Low-Voltage CMOS Switched-Opamp Switched-Capacitor Systems" published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. He is currently serving as a Technical Program Co-Chair for 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT), an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), and a technical program committee member of many conferences, including Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), and Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC).

Philip K. T. Mok

Philip K. T. Mok received his B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1986, 1989 and 1995, respectively. In January 1995, he joined the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, where he is currently a Professor. His current research interests include analogue integrated circuit techniques for power management circuits and low-voltage analogue integrated circuits design. He has been a member of the International Technical Program Committees of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 2005-2010 and he has served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II from 2005-2007, Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I from 2007-2009, and Journal of Solid-State Circuits since 2006.

Behzad Razavi

Behzad Razavi holds a PhD from Stanford and is Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. He has published more than 150 papers and seven books and received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and authorship. He is a Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE and was recognized as one of the top 10 authors in the 50-year history of ISSCC. He received the 2012 IEEE Donald Pedeson Award in Solid-State Circuits for his pioneering contributions to the design of high-speed communication circuits.

Michael C. K. Tse

Michael Tse graduated from Melbourne University, Australia, with BEng(Hons) and PhD degrees in 1987 and 1991, respectively. He is presently Chair Professor and Head of Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. He is the author of a circuit analysis text and five other research monographs. He received the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Best Paper Award in 2001 and the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications Best Paper Award in 2003. In 2005 he was named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. In 2007, he was awarded the Distinguished International Research Fellowship by the University of Calgary, Canada. In 2009 he won the Gold Medal with Jury's Commendation at International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, Switzerland. In 2010, he was appointed as Chang Jiang Scholars Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education, China. He is Honorary/Advisory/ Guest Professor of a number of universities in the mainland, including Beijing Jiaotong University, Wuhan University, Northeastern University, etc. He served/serves as Associate Editor for two IEEE Transactions, and a number of international journals. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of IEEE CAS Society Newsletter and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine. While with Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he was awarded twice the President's Award for Outstanding Achievements in Research, the Faculty's Best Researcher Award, and a few other teaching awards. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IEAust Fellow.